Yes good thinking and logic are not usually applied to this subject. Great channel.

I was going to write the same observation. So the notches were not for a ladder.

@@tanner1985 I think the notches could have been there for measuring the precise width of the narrowing corridor, they would allow a yardstick/cubitstick to be placed against a real reference. Measuring tapers is tricky compared to other measurements, especially precise acute tapers. Deviating from the design width by a tenth of an inch would result in whole inches deviation of where the granite plugstone would seat.

Hard and skilled work.

I am not familiar with anything. How dare you .ask me questions.? Time is old. And tellingk

Another video by HfG talks about the evolution of pyramids beginning with the mastabas which led to the Step Pyramid to the Red Pyramid and on to the Great Pyramid.

I will definitely be making a video about the robber’s tunnel that addresses some of those questions.

Is there any writing or hieroglyphs describing how the pyramids were built!

Thank you kindly, it does!

Can you give more info about the labyrinth or book you’re talking about?

@@DocBree13 I don’t know of any book, but I watched a video by UnchartedX here on KZfaq called: “Finding Ancient Egypt’s Lost Labrynth” and a couple others. NASA allowed a group of researchers to use one of their high dollar satellites to do a LIDAR survey and found it!

It’s been a lifelong passive interest, but the past few years I decided to get serious because nobody else was doing the research I felt was important. The big turning point was Egypt started opening up more sites to tourism so I can get quality imagery that is essential for both analysis and presentation.

Unlikely but fingers crossed that maybe there's another untouched tomb within, maybe of the real Khufu or his relatives

@@BasileosHerodou another? These pyramids were never tombs

@@BasileosHerodou there has never been a mummy found in any pyramid. There is no evidence these were tombs.

All this needs is 40 + minutes long videos.

@@pittypatterputzzler5311 honestly i think 20 minutes is perfect

Thanks for the reading tip. $7.99 for a new copy on Amazon.

Sitchin basically wrote science-fiction and he has been thoroughly discredited.

@@mikeheffernan Hi Mike, the only fiction book written by Sitchin that I am aware of is "The Lost Book of Enki" . Please inform me of who you think discredited Sitchin and if they did so the evidence they used to accomplish that. Cheers.

@@lanzlocz Google “Sitchin debunked”

NOT BRONZE AGE.................................................CHALCOLITHIC (COPPER) AGE

@@elamite66 The ancient Egyptians chisels in Cairo museum have 3% arsenic present in the copper, too much for a natural impurity and is called arsenical bronze.

@@elamite66 l am not being adversarial, we all seek knowledge and the age you speak of was a an anglocentrc term although England had excellent tin mineral deposits did they not have this technology? Tin makes superior bronze with greater corrosion capability it is possible that this technology was brought back to the from the Trojan Wars to the UK although Roman Catholicism by the Vatican has controlled history for 4 millenia

Can you share a link to your photo ?

@@IS-uh5yj yeah, nah, sorry it was back last century with a film camera so I don’t have it digitally

Very interesting idea, did tge guards take your disposable?

Too bad scanners don't exist

@@drum420 nope they didn’t.

Check out ronwyatt he has a good explanation as well

The fact that the Stone of the Pregnant Woman exists as it does dismisses the idea of geopolymer used. Besides, it's not possible to make geopolymer blocks that are that big, and to create geopolymer blocks you have to grind all material to a very fine powder first.

It's a good question. Perhaps it made grave goods easier to grab from above being hunched over in the corridors. It's also possible the ladder had some sort of unusual configuration different from modern ladders with the lateral supports offset in some way. But the main point is that the notches could only support human weight, not megalith weight.

@@HistoryforGRANITE Right. Thanks for the video and the reply. Good luck with your channel. 👍

I see it

they could be patterns that cascading debris made

I will make a video on the robber’s tunnel that I’m sure you will enjoy!

This..

@@HistoryforGRANITE yes please!

The movie site: smart observation.

Thank God someone has a brain around here!! There is no way that the caliph Al mamun blindly dug a tunnel that ended exactly were the ascending corridor and the descending corridor meet up. I’m thinking he found a way to get in using the original entrance under the Chevrons. Then once he found what he wanted to take out he realized it was too big to remove on the angle that the descending corridor makes to exit the pyramid. Does he dug out his own exit to remove this item that he was trying to take out the great pyramid. Of course the caliph never spoke about what he removed in any of his ventures because he didn’t want to look like a thief stealing treasure.

I don't like those 2 channels.

Closing the ascending passage with 15 tons of granite blocks. How did they do it?kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNtifpSTnq_agI0.html

Looks like a big ofen to me

That video isn’t too far off.

The ladder may have been for large, awkward grave goods that needed to take a gentler turn upwards.

@@HistoryforGRANITE no, if you put a ladder in the notches, it’s end would be halfway up above the floor of the ascending corridor. If put on the floor of it as I suggest, you could achieve a more gentle slope and a heavy object would exit near the floor, which would be better for both heavy objects and people. So the notches don’t make sense for a ladder.

The notches could have been used for mounting crystals which were illuminated by the electricity in the stones.

yeah i agree it seems from the picture the ladder / ramp would take up half the entrance , maybe the beam slot for a pully

I mean it is for sure they where used as tombs by the later egyptians, however i don´t think they were constructed for that purpose, mainly because the constructin does not make sense as a tomb, it is so diffrent from any other assured burrial building by any other culture, so who, how and for what purpose constructed the original pyramids remains indeed a mystery.

They didn't need something that massive too bury someone in ! That just ridiculous in my opinion so I have not a clue why they built such structures.

@@cliffordskeen4368 what are obelisks for? What is their purpose?

@@histguy101 you tell me and we will both know😄

They were tombs. This is universally agreed upon

I agree there is a theme of public/private separation in the substructures.

@@HistoryforGRANITE

Closing the ascending passage with 15 tons of granite blocks. How did they do it?kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNtifpSTnq_agI0.html

Compared to other burial chambers in Egypt, why would someone build thees enormous constructions? How long would it take to build them with the technology of the Egyptians and with the tools of that time. I do not belive it would have been possible.

@@arnehofoss9109 Yet, the structure exists.

Where might I find some of the original photos of stones seen in the corridors? I am curious to see them. I hope they were documented before being removed because they were significantly informative.

@@gandolph999Look through some of the earlier videos on the Ancient Architects page at kzfaq.info . Besides tons of sand clogging up the corridors, you can see there are pieces of granite blocks in 100-year-p;d photos.

@@danpetitpas Many thanks.

I would hazard a guess that the 'notches' may well have been to hold a temporary, small support beam which in turn supported several posts long enough to sit on the floor below and allow the first stone to be slid down and come to rest slightly above or onto the tops of the posts, where it could be adjusted with wedges to ensure correct alignment . The timbers etc then removed after the other two stones were slid into place. An access ladder would surely have been leaned against the floor of the ascending shaft rather than a small beam halfway up the face of the opening?

You are describing Houdin's internal layout theory which has many astute observations, but I do think there is room for improvement. Keep watching to find out how!

@@HistoryforGRANITE I do think Houdin is on the right track. We'll never know until the voids are investigated. Could be easily done in the 'notch' on the NE corner. According to the model made by Houdin with Dassault Systemes, investigated by Bob Brier, the inner passage would be exposed by moving only a couple stones from that enclave.

Yes it is clear that the one non loaded granite block in the Kings chamber hides some sort of passageway.Sadly I’m certain the authorities won’t pull it out for fear of damaging it ( no conspiracy theories here).But even for the sake of boosting tourism they should do it imho.

I don't think those 3 stones at the bottom were for a counterweight. That I think was in the hidden chamber above the gallery. But then I think the whole thing was a water powered machine. Water pouring down the shaft to the subterranean shaft would have created vacuum above in the well shaft. Which ports nicely up to the split in both chambers. Stone pistons in the chamber shafts could have pulled ropes outside the pyramid creating 2 cranes, if there were exterior spools. Vacuum, invisible power, the same power that stops your car. That's why the King's chamber had a lip to prevent the last stone from getting pulled in. The stone ball found was a bleed down valve that covered an orifice to slow the works in one direction, down. Found inside a shaft that I believe contained a piston. Everything else was fished out of the shafts, when they officially decommissioned. There's also a point in one of the shafts that looks like a gutter. That was a stopping point for the piston. It reached that point and air would flow around the piston. Softly stopping the machine. That's also why the shafts were a smooth limestone, "polished." The different chamber designs were based on one being an up the other a down. The vacuum pulled through the backside of the King's chamber through the hidden works to a stone the exact size as the sarcophagus height and width. The "sarcophagus" was a stone valve. It never had a lid, was designed for air to flow through the inside when the sarcophagus reached either end of travel, again stopping the whole machine gently, preventing over travel. The sarcophagus got jammed, was pushed into the chamber. The corner broken it was hopelessly damaged and left in place, looking like an empty coffin. Along the way, the mechanisms were removed, making it safer for inevitable explorers. The subchamber drain was expertly plugged, with perhaps some natural process helping it look like it was never finished.

@@pgtmr2713 The Khufu sarcophagus had a dovetail lid and holes for securing pins, same as what we see still intact in Khafre's pyramid. There is no evidence suggesting an airtight seal, vacuum, pumps, electricity or any of the hydraulics technology required for your assertions. You believe it is a machine to do what, exactly? We do see lots of pyramids around Egypt and they are all used as tombs or tomb markers. Pyramid Texts and the Diary of Merer confirm their use as tombs, aside from them being part of necropolis complexes and obviously exaggerated mastabas. If Houdin's theories are correct, we should even find evidence of a second internal counterweight ramp in opposition to the Grand Gallery. We already see evidence of such a ramp cut into the bedrock under the northeast corner of Khafre's pyramid, which was filled with stones during that pyramids construction.